Unteachable by Leah Raeder
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
While I've been hearing a lot about the New Adult genre, this is my first NA title and now I'm pretty sure that I'm light years from the target audience. I'm an Evan, not a Maise. I'm also not a romance reader, so I had hoped for this to be a little more of a psychological drama instead of a romance, because teacher/student=ick.
Maise is 18, and meets Evan (early 30s) at the local fair. They fall in love (lust?) in 30 seconds on a roller coaster (of course). Once Maise heads back to school she discovers that Evan is her teacher, which adds a wrinkle to their budding lustship. Never mind! Maise is broken and smart and dangerous and Evan makes her feel all better and helps her come alive. I never figured out any of Evan's personality traits, other than "hot" (Maise's interpretation) and shady (mine). Hot sex ensues. Few conversations take place that are not about the status of their relationship. Blech.
After finishing this I still can't come up with a single reason that Maise likes Evan. He's hot and it's fun to be risky? She feels different when she's with him? That's all I got, and it wasn't enough to make me care about their journey. I would have been much more interested in an evaluation of Evan's shady behavior.
I think this is really popular among the target audience, so we can chalk this review up to (a) I'm old and (b) I really hate romance novels. But I will keep trying to find one that I like!
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